National UFO Reporting CenterDaily Posting for Wednesday, October 01, 1997

A man, trained as an engineer, was leaving his home in Dubois, WY, at
0515 hrs. to go elk hunting with his son. As he was walking out of
his home in the early morning., he noticed a bright light in the north-northwest
sky, 15-20 degrees elevation, moving across the sky from west to east at
a very high velocity. I traversed approximately 10 degrees of arc
in just a few seconds. The object slowed, executed a “button-hook”
turn, and then stopped in the northwest sky at approximately 340 degrees
azimuth from the observer’s location. The father and sons observed
the object for several minutes with their hunting binoculars, while it
remained hovering motionless in the sky, and gave off amber, blue-green,
and red light.

At approximately 0610, the father and son arrived at their elk hunting
location near “Long Creek,” and witnessed a second time what they felt
was the same object in the northern sky. They observed the object
for several minutes with binoculars, and confirmed that the object was
moving left and right, relative to several prominent trees on the
northern horizon.

2) Omaha, NB, at 1930 hrs. (CDT) on Sunday, September 14, 1997

A man and wife video-taped three “disc-shaped” objects in the evening
sky for six minutes while at Campbell Lake, near Omaha, NB. The first
object appeared to “fire a missile” to the west, after which it approached
the couple, near enough that they could observe “three windows” on the
object. (Update: Peter Davenport and Robert J. Gribble of the
National UFO Reporting Center viewed the tape, provided by the photographer
and his wife. Neither Davenport nor Gribble witnessed anything that
appeared to them to be definitive evidence of a UFO. They felt the
objects most resembled the “contrails” formed by jet aircraft at high altitude.
Dr. Jack Casher, at the University of Nebraska, disagrees with that conclusion,
but he does not know what the objects are.)

3) Eugene, OR, at 2145 hrs. (PDT) on Wednesday, September 30,
1997

Two women observe a very bright, distinctly yellow, object, “as
big as a full moon,” to the east of their residence in Eugene, OR.
They were so intrigued by the object, that they returned to their apartment
to don coats, at which point, they walked two blocks to follow it as it
moved to the north. The object suddenly just disappeared from their
sight.

4) San Francisco, CA, on Friday, September 12, 1997 (Time unknown.)

A professional photographer completes a photography session at Twin
Peaks in San Francisco, CA. Approximately two weeks later, he edits
the video tape, and notices a dark streak across the screen. Slowing
the film considerably, he notices three disc-shaped object flying horizontally
in formation behind his photography subject. He offers to send a
copy of the tape to the National UFO Reporting Center.

5) Woodbury, TN, at 2145 hrs. (EDT) on Wednesday, October 01,
1997

A law-enforcement agency reports having received two UFO reports in
rapid sequence. One of the observers calls and reports a very bright,
multi-colored object in the northeast sky, which is is 30 degrees above
the horizon, and moving around the sky “more than the diameter of a pie-pan
held at arm’s length.” When asked if the object could be a planet
or twinkling star, the caller assures that it could not be because of its
dramatic movement across the sky.

Officers were dispatched to the caller’s location, but reported that
they saw nothing unusual.

(Update: Witness calls on October 02, and reports that the object
is visible again in the night sky. He avers that the object might
be a celestial object.)